Norm MacDonald Quotes

The beginning of wisdom is the knowledge of folly.

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• Our children will outwit us if they want; for when it comes to technology, they hold the higher ground. Unlike other tools passed carefully and ceremonially from one generation to the next - the sharp scissors, the car keys - this is one they understand better than we do.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Children
  • Technology
  • Car

• I started dealing with weapons on the first show I ever did, 'The Inside,' but I didn't really do any physical stuff until 'Alias.'

  

  Rachel Nichols
  • First
  • Inside
  • Weapons

• I just fell into the job as a fashion editor at a teen magazine. I was there for two years, and I left there as a senior fashion editor at the age of 25.

  

  Rachel Zoe
  • Job
  • Age
  • Fashion

• I don't pretend to be anything but an actor and a writer.

  

  Dan Futterman
  • Actor
  • Writer
  • Pretend

• Facetiousness is allowable when it is the most proper instrument of exposing things apparently base and vile to due contempt.

  

  Isaac Barrow
  • Things
  • Instrument
  • Contempt

• 'Love Letter' reminds me of 'Chocolate Factory' and 'Happy People.' It's a little bit of both of those, yeah. I just wanted it to be classy, man. And romantic. And maybe 10 percent sexy.

  

  R. Kelly
  • People
  • Happy
  • Man

• Our goal definitely isn't to sell Stripe.

  

  Patrick Collison
  • Goal
  • Definitely
  • Sell

• If gender is on a spectrum, where one finds oneself is completely unique.

  

  Eddie Redmayne
  • Unique
  • Gender
  • Spectrum

• The joy is in the getting there. The beginning years of starting your business, the camaraderie when you're in the pit together, are the best years of your life. So rather than being so focused on when you get big and powerful, if you can just get the juice out of that... don't miss it.

  

  Barbara Corcoran
  • Life
  • Business
  • Together

• I am very interested in Ayurvedic medicine and hope to explore it more someday. I only have a very superficial understanding of the whole thing right now. But learning what my body type is has shifted my whole self-care regime a bit, and I feel better because of it.

  

  Taylor Schilling
  • Learning
  • Body
  • Medicine

• It's hardly even noticeable that so many artists, designers and architects live here. It isn't reflected in the cityscape or in the museums. Many of the artists, for example, exhibit around the world, just not in Berlin.

  

  Olafur Eliasson
  • World
  • Live
  • Example

• I was with the CIA for only three years. I worked in the Directorate of Operations, which is now called the National Clandestine Service. It's the part of the organization where the spies live. I didn't have much experience beyond the training.

  

  Barry Eisler
  • Live
  • Experience
  • Training

• I am upset and completely disappointed in the government, the millionaires and billionaires in the U.S. See what's happening to the country? Look at all the health problems, the economy, the recession and crime.

  

  Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
  • Health
  • Government
  • Economy

• Space exploration is important research to our economic and national defense, and America's space program is a symbol of our success as a scientifically and technologically advanced nation.

  

  Randy Forbes
  • Important
  • America
  • Success

• It's cool having a little bit of money to do your thing.

  

  Watkin Tudor Jones
  • Money
  • Cool
  • Little

• In black Africa, one does not strike, one does not express, one walks right.

  

  Yannick Noah
  • Black
  • Right
  • Africa

• Negativity spreads faster than any Justin Bieber song.

  

  Vanilla Ice
  • Song
  • Negativity
  • Faster

• We have taken a giant step forward in correcting some of the misconceptions people have about the church. I think that we've made a lot of friends.

  

  M. Russell Ballard
  • People
  • Friends
  • Church

• I would rather have India reduced to a state of pauperism than have thousands of drunkards in our midst.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Midst
  • Reduced
  • Pauperism

• I think sketch writing is a good spot for everyone to start because it requires you to develop characters, have a beginning, middle and end and have a bunch of jokes in a short amount of time.

  

  Blake Anderson
  • Time
  • Good
  • Writing

• Nothing mitigated failure except the knowledge that it did not matter.

  

  Elizabeth Goudge
  • Knowledge
  • Failure
  • Not Matter

• Madness, provided it comes as the gift of heaven, is the channel by which we receive the greatest blessings... the men of old who gave things their names saw no disgrace or reproach in madness; otherwise they would not have connected it with the name of the noblest of arts, the art of discerning the future, and called it the manic art... So, according to the evidence provided by our ancestors, madness is a nobler thing than sober sense... madness comes from God, whereas sober sense is merely human.

  

  Plato
  • God
  • Art
  • Blessing

• Once we secure our borders - and the federal government has not done a good job - then Congress, I believe, needs to take up the issue and look at how we try and identify those people that are here, that are national security risks to the United States.

  

  David Dewhurst
  • People
  • Up
  • Good

• The beginning of wisdom is the knowledge of folly.

  

  Norm MacDonald
  • Knowledge
  • Wisdom
  • Beginning